Futurist speaker Rudy de Waele is an innovation strategist, a  futurist, content curator, keynote speaker, and author. Global brands and startups benefit from his unique innovation strategy, which incorporates cutting-edge techniques to reinvent and reshape business.

The combination of his unrivaled experience, knowledge, and insight inspires leaders to stay one step ahead of the competition. Rudy’s areas of expertise include predicting and analyzing technology trends. Moreover, he is a leader in promoting ideas exchange on how to succeed in the modern economy. He also facilitates Socratic Design workshops on how to build relevant businesses.

He wrote Shift 2020 – How Technology Will Impact Our Future, about how future factors will impact our lives. These are factors such as the Internet of Things, robotics, genetics, and artificial intelligence. The book also includes reflections from some of the world’s pioneers in technology.

Rudy graduated from Singularity University and has created over 200 leading industry events worldwide, including Mobile Mondays, Mobile Sunday, Wearable Wednesdays, IoT Shifts, and IoT Stars. 

He is an IoT council member, as well as an associate of The Futures Agency. In addition, he is a Strategic Advisor and Ambassador for Smart Cities World.

These are among the companies who have worked with him: Affinity Petcare, Abbott, Bearingpoint, BMW, BlackBerry, Criteo, Cambridge University, Boston Consulting Group, and Coca-Cola. He has also worked with CBRE, the City of Barcelona, Cheil Worldwide, Ericsson, Google, the European Commission, IBM, Intel, Louis Vuitton, Microsoft, and MasterCard.

The Conscious Futurist was founded by speaker Rudy de Waele in 2020. With the Conscious Learning Tribe, individuals have access to a community of leaders and game-changers who tell their stories on how to pick a healthy work/life balance free of harmful addictions and assumptions.